1868. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



219 



In one word, he was going to do great things 

 and made a great show. Well, what was the 

 result? As the good Book says, you did run 

 well ; who did hinder you ? No one but him- 

 self. He soon got a notion of spending his 

 time at shoemakers', tailors', and carpenters' 

 shops, and of going to neighbors' houses to 

 smoke his pipe, and by attending to other peo- 

 ples' business, neglected his own, and left his 

 men to do that which he ought to do himself, 

 and to do it in their own way. He kept his 

 horses in the stable when they should have 

 been in the field. The result was that in less 

 than ten years everything he had went under 

 the auctioneer's hammer. 



Now Mr. "C. B. R." and other young farm- 

 ers, you see in the above statement how one 

 man succeeded and another failed on the same 

 farm. Both of these men have their repi-esen- 

 tatives in America, as well as in England. 



To pay for your farms, then, as others have 

 done, you must, in the first place, get good 

 tools, and a pair of good hands to work them, 

 but not in kid gloves ! Let the farm- have 

 your undivided attention. Give up smoking 

 and drinking, and loafing at stores, &c., and 

 if there is any difficulty about farming that you 

 do not fully understand, inquire of some good 

 practical farmer. Do not place much confi- 

 dence in the advice of men that can farm for 

 other people, but cannot, or do not, succeed in 

 farming for themselves ; but write to the New 

 England Farmer, or any other agricultural 

 paper, and 1 doubt not but some one will give 

 you the required information. But kbove all, 

 let PERSEVERANCE be your motto. e. h. 



Jeffersonville, Vt., Feb. 7, 1868. 



THE HORSEMA-N". 



The horseman should be one of the most pa- 

 tient men in the world. His temper should 

 always be under perfect control. Blind pas- 

 sion should never get in the ascendant — if it 

 does, the poor horse will suffer. But the 

 horseman should not only be a patient man — 

 he should also be a kind and good man. Pie 

 should not like to inflict any unnecessary pain 

 or punishment — his heart should be too kind 

 for that — for it is by the law of kindness, after 

 all. that the horse should be trained. His edu- 

 cation should proceed precisely as a child's — 

 but the child has a great advantage over the 

 horse, for it can understand language, and the 

 poor horse cannot. The child must learn his 

 alphabet before it can spell and read, and it 

 should not be punished for not knowing how to 

 read before its letters are learned. The horse, 

 too, must have his a, b, c's taught him — so 

 to speak. He has certain lessons to learn — 

 and these lessons must be tauglit with patience 

 and kindness. Only one thing should be 

 taught at a time, and that should be thorough- 

 ly understood. Then another step in advance 

 can be taken ; and when that is thoroughly 

 learned, again proceed, and so on. There 



will be no difficulty. Every thing proceeds 

 by simples — every thing is understood. Many 

 men do things by force. They give the horse's 

 understanding the go-by. They don't seem 

 to think he has any understanding or senses — 

 but has he not ? Cannot he feel and smell, 

 and see and hear and remember, as well as 

 any of us, and even better? He must be 

 taught through his senses and memory. Should 

 not the horseman be, then, not only a verv pa- 

 tient, a very kind and good man — but should 

 he not love the animal which engages his atten- 

 tion ! If he does not, he is not a genuine 

 horseman. He will not treat him with that 

 kind and tender regard that he should, if he 

 does not love the noble animal which he han- 

 dles. — Rural World and Valley Farmer. 



IMPORTED HORSE COl^STERNATIOTS". 



I write for information concerning the imported 

 horse "Consternation," a line portrait of which is 

 given in the Monthly Farmer for 1853, page 513, 

 but with few particulars about him, and I think 

 you have not mentioned him since. I have seen 

 in some agricultural journal a statement that the 

 horses of a portion of the State of New York had 

 been very much improved by said horse, but it did 

 not sa.Y when he was imported or by whom. I 

 have an acquaintance who claims to know that he 

 has been kept in Herkimer county, N. Y., as a 

 stock horse, and that he is well acquainted with 

 his stock. I expected to find all necessary infor- 

 mation concerning him in "Wallace's American 

 Stud Book," but he is only mentioned twice, and 

 then simply as sire to two celebrated trotters, Julia, 

 six years old this spring, and Lady of the Lake, 

 ten years old this spring, both chestnut mares be- 

 longing in the State of New York. One reason 

 why I wish to know particularly about this horse 

 is that I like to be well posted in regard to all 

 good breeding stock in the country, both horses 

 and cattle, and another is, I have purchased a fine 

 pair of mares, sired b.y him, for breeding purposes. 

 They are splendid animals and were raised by a 

 Mr. Read of Herkimer county, N. Y. Please in- 

 form me by whom this horse was imported, where 

 kept, with as particular a description as you can 

 give. John Dimon. 



Pomfret, Conn., March 5, 18G8. 



Remarks. — We have ransacked the Trans- 

 actions of the New York State Agricultural 

 Society from 1845, the year in which "Con- 

 sternation" took the first premium on "blood- 

 ed horses" down to the present time, and also 

 "Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship," 

 without finding as complete an answer as could 

 be desired to the inquiries of our correspon- 

 dent. Mr. Herbert, "Frank Forrester," gives 

 the following as the pedigree of the imported 

 horse 



"Consternation — Foaled, 1841, by Confed- 

 erate out of Curiositj'' ; Confederate by Comus 

 out of Maritones ; Curiosity by Figaro out of 

 a Waxy mare. A horse of great size and 

 strength, imported especially to improve the 

 breed of ordinary horses." 



